That's "in the real world", but one small slip or mechanical malfunction, and Howard is actually running Sheldon over. It had to have been controlled somehow, or stunt actors (which it wasn't because it was clearly Sheldon. I'd have to watch it again to see if it was a stunt driver).

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Yeah, I would imagine they would have it rigged so as to preclude an accident. Or maybe I'm more sensitive to that because I have seen a friend get slammed into a building by somebody playing around and acting like they were going to hit her. Prank went bad - woman lost a leg.

Anyway, I enjoyed the episode too and the whole Sheldon/Howard thing was pretty funny. Didn't notice flesh-color shorts so I fear I am going to have to retrieve episode and check it out (what is WRONG with me??).

Somehow I don't think they're going to pull the engine just for one gag, unless it was a car already on the studio lot for such purposes, which I doubt.

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You don't think that with all the TV production they do in SoCal, much of it in closed sets that are made to look like the outdoors, that they couldn't find a prop company with an engine-less car for exactly this type of situation?

You don't think that with all the TV production they do in SoCal, much of it in closed sets that are made to look like the outdoors, that they couldn't find a prop company with an engine-less car for exactly this type of situation?

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When Reno 911 had the idea for a gag that needed a Miata with a trailer hitch, the production guys called the local car clubs and rented one from a private citizen. (Me.)

TBBT threads in this forum are not always about the show and sometimes more about something tangential. For a show that has arguments about Superman's dry cleaning, it actually fits in with the show pretty well.